Yamafu Military Affairs

Chapter 409 Catching Ghosts at Midnight

At the same time, Ao Ling's mind moved, as if to confirm Qin Huai's words. The white mist rising from the cauldron gathered and took shape, turning into Ashimujia's face, appearing in front of him.

As Ashimujia looked at the lifelike and detailed shadows of the fog, all his doubts disappeared immediately. He stood up excitedly, bowed and was about to kowtow.

"Ayisemiao has been blessed by the gods to visit my humble home. It is truly a rare blessing for me to be honored by your presence."

"Old man, you are too polite. We are so grateful for staying at your house tonight. How can we ask the host to show his courtesy?"

Qin Huai raised his hand to support Ashimujia's arm, and finally persuaded him to stop.

Perhaps because he had truly witnessed Ao Ling's magical powers, Ashimujia became much more talkative. From time to time, he told the two of them about the customs and culture of Daliang Mountain. Whenever A'mei brought up new Yi dishes, he would also introduce their methods and stories.

Ao Ling listened with great interest and asked questions from time to time. Qin Huai chatted more and more with Fengdu. The atmosphere beside the fire pit was harmonious. Qin Huai inadvertently talked about the smell of blood he had just smelled in the yard.

When Ashimujia saw Qin Huai mentioned the key point, he immediately replied: "Ayi, you don't know, a few days ago, my family's pigs, horses, cattle and sheep suffered a disaster, and more than a dozen of them were lost one after another. At first, I thought that tigers, leopards, jackals and wolves broke into the animal pen and took them away. Later, the servants found the dead bodies of the animals in the mountains, and found that it was most likely a ghost, so I asked Suni to come here to exorcise the evil spirits."

After hearing this, Qin Huai raised his eyes and looked at Fengdu beside him, with a hint of inquiry in his eyes.

"Yes, I came to the Liangzi this time to catch ghosts."

Feng Du held the wine bowl in his hand and said solemnly, "I have checked. The bodies of the livestock that died suddenly in Apo's house have become extremely skinny, with their flesh and blood shrunken. I think they were not killed by wild beasts, but by the [earth and sand livestock] in the ghost spirit."

"I have performed the incantation today. The ghost will take the bait in a few hours. You should be careful when you rest tonight. You won't be affected much."

Fengdu could see that Qin Huai and Ao Ling had extraordinary abilities and were not ordinary people, so he just gave them a few reminders and didn't say anything else.

Qin Huai knew that the Yi shamans had their own persistence, so he did not rashly offer to help. He nodded to show that he knew the limits.

Before they knew it, it was late at night. Ashimujia had asked the servants to clean out the two tiled houses early. Just when Fengdu was about to ask Qin Huai whether this arrangement was unnecessary, he saw Qin Huai had already stood up, apologized, and left the table first.

Afterwards, Ao Ling left the fire pit, chatting and laughing with the Yi girl, on the pretext of washing up. Only Fengdu and Ashimujia were left to maintain the incantation ceremony and had no choice but to keep watch beside the Guozhuang.

"Apo, tell me, are they a couple?"

Fengdu was thinking about how Qin Huai and Ao Ling had just interacted, and felt a little confused about their relationship.

"Haha, since Feng Suni can't see it, the old man has no idea either."

Ashimu tapped his pipe and grinned, but then he thought of the ghost disaster in his own home and couldn't help but feel a headache again.

In the guest room, Qin Huai took out the latest mechanical hound [MH-3] of Luwu Heavy Industry that he had looted from the [Liuguangmeng] fruit, and stuffed the letter that Li Bingwu had recently left behind into the sensor port.

【MH-3 Mechanical Hound】

Category: Mechanical Creation
Quality: Rare

characteristic:
【All-terrain adaptability】: Go up to the sky and into the ground, in fire and water.

[Tracking]: You only need an item with the target's scent to detect the target's location through the sensor, and the effective range is 200 miles.

Qin Huai looked at the unresponsive MH-3 Mechanical Hound in his hand, knowing that Li Bingwu and his group were most likely not nearby, and inevitably felt a little disappointed.

But on second thought, Qionghai is still hundreds of miles away from the head of Liangzi, just outside the range of the hounds. Maybe there is news about Hongying and the others there? And since he is here, Qin Huai feels that it is necessary to meet that big Suni Fengliu.

After figuring out the key, Qin Huai took off his boots, turned on the stealth alert mode of the mechanical hound, and fell into a deep sleep.

From outside the door there was a faint sound of the whistling night wind, like the ethereal song of a mountain ghost.

In the middle of the night, a loud thunderclap sounded suddenly out of nowhere.

boom!
Qin Huai, who was awakened, opened the door and saw Fengdu holding a piece of wood and muttering to himself in the yard surrounded by several tiled houses. In front of him was a shadow bound by black air, looking neither human nor human.

The servants in Ashimujia's house took torches from the fire pit to illuminate the shadow, and only then were they able to reveal its exact appearance.

This creature has a pointed beak, a chopping board hanging on its head, wears a sheepskin coat, holds a small axe in its hand, and carries an old bamboo basket on its back. It is about one meter tall and is being suppressed by Fengdou, howling miserably.

[Tushachu Ghost]: A Sichuan ghost that specifically harms livestock and living creatures, and often appears in bone burial places under steep cliffs.

"Hurry up and get out the grass ghost and cursed animal that Suni prepared during the day. Don't let this ghost escape!"

Ashimujia waved his brass pipe and gave orders to the servants in the house.

".Iznaba, Netszhibi!"

Following the incantation ritual, he finished reciting the ghost source and slid his index finger across the nine-day sun and moon, star mist and thunder tree engraved on the wooden board. Almost invisible Yuan Qi gushed out, tightly suppressing the still struggling [Earth and Sand Ghost].

"Huai Lang, do we want it?"

Ao Ling came out of the room at some point, looked at Suni catching ghosts in the yard, and asked softly.

"Just help him. These Yi Suni people should be good at dealing with ghosts."

Qin Huai folded his arms. The people in the courtyard had already tied up the [Tushachugui] like a dumpling. As long as nothing unexpected happened, it would be easy for the Yi family to resolve this disaster.

"But this ghost seems to be full of the stench of blood and rot, not cold and sinister. Could it be that we were wrong before?"

Qin Huai felt the aura of [Tusha Hugui] and always felt that something was wrong.

At this moment, a cold wind with moist water vapor blew by, and a vague black shadow suddenly appeared behind the beautiful Yi girl who was leaning next to Ashimujia and watching Fengdu catch ghosts.

The black shadow appeared silently, and even Qin Huai, who always had a keen sense of perception, was unable to notice it immediately.

puff~
Suddenly, there was a sound of something heavy falling into the water. The black shadow turned into a short, pale-skinned old woman who pounced out suddenly, and her dry hands like chicken claws went straight to the Yi girl's neck.

At this moment, in Qin Huai's [Glimpse], he saw a pale white human figure suddenly appear in the yard, leaving a residual shadow, and pounced towards Ashimujia. "Be careful!"

Before Qin Huai finished his words, Ao Ling, who was in tune with his thoughts, had already taken action. Qingbi Canglan and Hanhai Qianlong appeared together and captured the old woman who rushed behind Ashimujia.

"what!"

The Yi girl was frightened by this unexpected incident and stumbled forward two steps. Her pretty face turned pale and she felt a chill on her back, as if her dress had been torn and a big hole had been opened, and cold wind was pouring in. She subconsciously grabbed her father beside her. A fiery red light appeared on Ashimujia's chest, blocking the two of them and the old woman.

Only a shrill howl was heard in the air. The old woman, who was surrounded by water and tied up, looked like she was put into a boiling oil pan. Most of her body was burnt black and she could not move.

Qin Huai's mind changed, and the blue waves turned into red and scorching magma. The concentrated power of Grain in Ear kept melting the old woman and shrinking her without leaving any bones or flesh. It turned out to be a ghost!
[Crazy, wet and sick ghost]: A ghost from Sichuan and Shu who loves beauty and makeup and is jealous of young and pretty women. It is the reincarnation of a wronged woman after her death. Due to the sudden increase in the amount of Qi between heaven and earth, it became a ghost in the legend of the Yi people by chance.

The crimson lava mass emitted a magnificent light, and the water flames ignited the entire [Crazy, Wet and Sick Ghost].

"Ah ah ah ah ah!"

A creepy scream came from the lava ball, along with bursts of burnt black smoke. Soon, the remaining spirit of the [Crazy and Sick Ghost] was gone, and his soul was scattered.

Qin Huai jumped down from the building and looked at the floating lava ball thoughtfully, his eyes a little dazed.

[You have obtained the spirit essence refined by the ghost spirit. You can absorb it to strengthen the spirit energy in the Niwan Palace and improve the sex in the sex life cultivation. ]

[Attention, my dear walker, collecting a large amount of these spirit essences obtained from mountain ghosts, water monsters, forest monsters, rock demons and other spirits may bring unexpected gains.]

"Master Walker, if you can obtain another eighty portions of the same amount of spiritual essence, you will obtain [Yambu Secret Treasure·Shuangling Money], which will directly strengthen the Shuangling Soul among your three souls and seven spirits."

(This message is exclusively for Ace Ninja Zero.)
Qin Huai waved his hand, and the lava ball disappeared. Lu Wu, who was sleeping soundly in the Niwan Palace, was chilled to the bone by the cold water poured by Tian Wu. He woke up on Kunlun Rock, with nine cloud tails stretched out. Just as he was about to fight with Tian Wu, he saw the spiritual essence falling from the sky like stardust. Immediately, his cloud tails rolled up, gathered it into a ball, and swallowed it into his stomach in a big gulp.

A trembling feeling from the soul bursts out from the center of the eyebrows, making people feel intoxicated.

After an unknown amount of time, Qin Huai opened his eyes and inexplicably felt that his understanding of Qi and spirit had reached a new level. At the same time, he finally understood the difference between his Qi power and the Yuan Qi mentioned in [Human Immortal Martial Arts].

In Taoist terms, the meteorological force that constitutes the meteorological atmosphere of heaven and man is the "flower" in the "three flowers gathering at the top of the head". Its essence is the glory of the human body's essence, energy and spirit, and is stored in the Niwan Palace in the upper dantian.

The Yuan Qi cultivated in the [Human Immortal Martial Arts] is the Qi of the five internal organs, heart, liver, spleen, lungs, and kidneys, which is also the Qi in the "Five Qis Returning to the Origin". After a series of tempering, it gathers and returns to its original state, goes up to the brain, and becomes "Yuan", which is the "Innate Qi".

There is no difference between the two before reaching the end of cultivation. If one has the method, the Yuan Qi in Dantian can be integrated with the Shen Qi in Niwan, connecting the inner scene with the outer scene, and exerting the same effect as the power of Qi.

To put it simply, the divine Qi and the primordial Qi represent "nature" and "life" respectively, and the power of Qi has integrated nature and life into one, so they can be cultivated together.

As for other deeper uses, limited by the current situation, Qin Huai had to put it aside for the time being and come back to his senses.

"Ayi, Ayi?"

Seeing Qin Huai in a daze, Ashimujia thought that he had accidentally made a mistake while catching ghosts just now, so he hurriedly asked his servant to bring some grass ghosts and threw them at Qin Huai to help drive away the evil spirits.

"I'm fine, it's just that this ghost was born strangely, and I just calmed down and pondered it for a while, so I was a little absent-minded. There's no need to panic, old man."

Qin Huai waved his hand, indicating to Ashimu Jia that he was fine.

"Han family Ayi has extraordinary skills, could he also be a Dasuni, a true Taoist?"

Ashimujia thought of the amazing method of creating flames from water and the surging enthusiasm that could not be faked, and couldn't help but give a thumbs up to praise Qin Huai.

"You are embarrassing me. I have only read some Taoist scriptures and have some tricks of drawing talismans and catching ghosts. It is not worth mentioning. It is not worth mentioning."

Qin Huai laughed and looked towards the yard, just in time to see Fengdu pressing [Tushachugui] into the ghost board magic map in his hand.

[Spirit Binding Diagram]: One of the incantation tools used by Liangshan shamans. Before catching ghosts and exorcising evil spirits, the appearance of the ghost to be captured is carved on it. Once the real ghost is found, the Su Ni method can be used to capture it, tame and train it, and use it for one's own benefit.

"Doesn't that mean these Sunnies have to carry a bunch of boards when they fight?"

Qin Huai looked at the feedback from [A Glimpse] and always felt that their method was somewhat similar to that of a certain anime by Tianjiazijiu.

His expression was noticed by Ashimujia, who thought that he was curious about the methods of the Yi Suni, so Ashimujia took the initiative to introduce them.

"Feng Suni is a famous wizard in Qionghai. It is said that he can control more than a dozen spirits. Whenever there is a disaster that harms people and animals in our village located in the valley, we just need to burn the ghost statue under the tree branch, and he will come to our house the next day to help catch ghosts and exorcise evil spirits. There is almost no problem."

"Feng Suni is indeed quite capable. I'm sure that even if I didn't do anything just now, the things you have here will be able to protect my sister."

Qin Huai pointed at Ashimujia's chest.

"Han family Ayi has good taste. This fire horn is indeed what Feng Suni asked me to wear before nightfall."

Ashimujia was amazed at Qin Huai's sharp vision, and immediately pulled out a necklace from his collar. On the necklace was a small piece of bison horn with dark red patterns and a touch of vermilion painted on it, like a closed eye in the sky.

[Fire Horn]: One of the ritual implements of Liangshan shamans. It is made of prey captured during the coming-of-age ceremony of Yi male shamans. It is warmed by the fire veins of the earth and the hot springs of snow-capped peaks. When the spiritual energy of heaven and earth generates red patterns, it will become a spiritual protective implement. The wearer can temporarily drive away evil spirits and protect themselves.

Note: It is only useful when worn by Yi men, because Yi men are "body-protecting souls" and Yi women are "fertility souls".

After seeing the notes carefully marked by Zero, Qin Huai finally understood why the Yi girl was not protected by the red light and could only hide behind Ashimujia.

"Brother Qin, thank you for what you did just now."

Seeing Fengdu, who had thrown the grass ghost and the ghost board out of the door and completed the exorcism ritual without even wiping his sweat before coming to thank him, Qin Huai shook his head and pointed at Ashimu Jia: "Everything is destined by fate. If it weren't for the old man's kindness in taking us in last night, how would I have the opportunity to help such a group today? Feng Suni, there's no need to be polite."

It was already bright outside. Qin Huai saw that Ao Ling had comforted his frightened sister, so he thought about saying goodbye and leaving.

"Wait a minute, you two. Let me clean up the ghost energy one last time. If there is nothing left out, we can return to Qionghai together. Wouldn't it be better if I take you two to see Awu?"

Fengdu saw that Qin Huai was about to leave, so he hurriedly stopped the two of them.

(End of this chapter)